10 April 2006

Following Toshiba's lead, Acer have announced the 2nd notebook to support HD-DVD; The Aspire 9800.

Acer's new laptop, The Aspire 9800 will debut in May and will ship with a 20 inch,1,680 x 1,050 cristalbrite display. This is fed not only by the up and coming HD-DVD drive, but also by built in analogue and digital TV tuners. Unfortunately though, the first models to ship may only ship with a DVD drive. The best Acer could say about the availability of the HD-DVD drive is that it'll ship when it ships.

The Aspire 9800 will also come with a 1.3 megapixel webcam- dubbed the 'Orbicam', and a DVI-D port to hook the machine up to a HD TV. An Intel Core Duo processor, a Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 GPU with up to 256MB video memory, Bluetooth 2.0, and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi are also amongst its features.